Mammoth athletes were just about everywhere this past week, from British Columbia to the Czech Republic, from Italy to Germany, from Sugar Bowl to right here at home.

Leading the charge were Madeline Riffel and Nicolo Montforte, who came away with NOR-AM Cup gold medals in skicross at Panorama, B.C., last weekend, March 16-17.

The racers had to deal with typical late season conditions with in-and-out precipitation and “spring-freezed snow,” but both landed on top of the podium with the gold around their necks on Saint Patrick’s Day.

Monforte, who is skicross star John Teller’s cousin, was a drop-in team member traveling with the Mammoth Mountain Ski Team group. Also traveling with the team was Shannon Hartmann who placed sixth and seventh in the women’s races.

At the same time these athletes were competing in Canada, Tyler Wallasch was in Kuehtai, Germany, for two Europa Cup skicross events, where he placed 11th and seventh against some very stiff European competition.

Extremely firm snow conditions allowed racers from the back of the pack the same opportunity to land podium positions as the athletes who started at the beginning of the race. On Saturday, Mammoth Ski Team landed five men on the podium with Charlie Regelbrugge (Mammoth) in second; Lance Davenport (Pacific Palisades) in seventh; Sam Beutner (Pacific Palisades) eighth; Jake Bleil (Laguna Beach) 12th; and Bruno Amon-Franceschi (Los Angeles) in 15th.

Kendall Lach (Mammoth) was second for the women.

The following day, Lach came back to repeat her second-place finish, while Regelbrugge moved up to take the gold by 1.61 over Sugar Bowl Ski Team’s Ben Eisenstat.

Regelbrugge was again joined on the podium by Davenport in fifth; and Beutner in 11th.

Freeskiers in Idaho and Alaska

Mammoth freeski athletes at print deadline were finishing up at the Revolution Tour in Sun Valley, Idaho, and the U16s were getting ready to head home from Alyeska, Alaska, where they took part in the U16 Nationals. (Results from these events and others will be covered next week).

Forty skiers took part in the camp that covered slalom, giant slalom, and Super G racing. For Yguico, this was her second performance camp in two years, having taken part in the J4 camp last season.

Andre Escobar at Snowboard World Cup

Mammoth Mountain Snowboard Team member Andre Escobar (Mammoth Lakes), representing Chile, took 75th place in the FIS Snowboard World Cup season’s second slopestyle competition, staged in Spindleruv Mlyn, Czech Republic, on Saturday, March 16.

Enni Rukajarvi (FIN) and Torstein Horgmo (NOR) won in the finals of the venue’s World Cup debut, which were dominated by Northern European riders.